paulasimoes10 Resons to Read #AnthonyTrollope
New series by Katie Lumsden
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#DustBunny didn't expect to like it as much as I did. There was some cleverness there. Gotta love.
Anyone else getting a '403 forbidden' page while trying to log into bluesky this weekend, or is it just me?
I kind of like not being on there. LOL It's nice having a bunch of followers but getting blasted with politics from all of those followers is tiresome.
Electronic Frontier FoundationIf you host user content, copyright risk is real. Our guide walks fediverse operators through DMCA safe harbor basics. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/copyright-and-dmca-best-practices-fediverse-operators
Copyright and DMCA Best Practices for Fediverse Operators
People building the future of the social web—interoperable and decentralized—need to protect themselves against copyright liability. This post gives an overview of the steps to take. It’s meant for operators of Mastodon and other ActivityPub servers, Bluesky hosts, RSS mirrors, and other decentralized social media protocols, and developers of apps for those protocols—but it will apply to other hosts as well.
Penalizing a would-be foreign student or visitor for not being active on social media or keeping their online presence shielded from the general public is an outrageous overreach by the administration, EFF’s Sophia Cope told @bloomberg.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-30/rubio-ramps-up-pressure-on-harvard-with-expanded-visa-scrutiny
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-30/rubio-ramps-up-pressure-on-harvard-with-expanded-visa-scrutiny
Citizen gives "everyone the power to deem who is and isn’t suspicious, and who belongs or doesn’t belong in their community—which means they can be a digital superhighway for racial profiling and invasion of privacy,” EFF’s Matthew Guariglia told the Pittsburgh Post Gazette.
https://www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-courts/2025/06/01/citizen-crime-tracking-app-pittsburgh/stories/202505300068
https://www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-courts/2025/06/01/citizen-crime-tracking-app-pittsburgh/stories/202505300068
Ars TechnicaExercise improves colon cancer survival, high-quality trial finds
Any type of aerobic exercise works for the improvements, study finds.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/06/exercise-improves-colon-cancer-survival-high-quality-trial-finds/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
Any type of aerobic exercise works for the improvements, study finds.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/06/exercise-improves-colon-cancer-survival-high-quality-trial-finds/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
Bruce Sterling @brucesEurope-Trumpistan science war erupting in Houston airport
Etats-Unis : un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump »
Le ministre de la recherche français a dit sa « préoccupation », mercredi, après cette décision des autorités américaines. Le chercheur du CNRS aurait subi un contrôle aléatoire à son arrivée, avant que son ordinateur et son téléphone ne soient fouillés.
Hints grow stronger that dark energy changes over time
Latest DESI results fall short of discovery threshold but strengthen evidence for dynamical dark energy.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/03/hints-grow-stronger-that-dark-energy-changes-over-time/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
Latest DESI results fall short of discovery threshold but strengthen evidence for dynamical dark energy.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/03/hints-grow-stronger-that-dark-energy-changes-over-time/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
Bytes EuropeLithuanian publisher pulls JD Vance’s memoir ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ from sale https://www.byteseu.com/813295/ #Books #JdVance #literature #Lithuania #Russia'sInvasionOfUkraine #VolodymyrZelenskyy
Lithuanian publisher pulls JD Vance's memoir 'Hillbilly Elegy' from sale
A Lithuanian publisher has pulled JD Vance’s controversial memoir 'Hillbilly Elegy' from sale. Here's why. ADVERTISEMENTSofoklis, a Lithuanian publishing company has confirmed it will stop selling US Vice President JD Vance’s memoir 'Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis', following “the US presidential administration’s decision to suspend aid to Ukraine”. The ban will continue “as long as US foreign policy towards Ukraine remains unchanged,” the publisher said in a Facebook post. “We invite you to support Ukraine and read books by Ukrainian authors published by Sofoklis and other publishers and donate to Blue/Yellow”.Opinions were predictably split